The Envisat satellite has followed the movements of the huge iceberg that on August 4 last year came off the Petermann glacier in Greenland. This sequence of radar images acquired between July 31 and September 1, shows the iceberg that runs from the glacier enters the Nares Strait, the stretch of sea that connects the Arctic Ocean and the Lincoln Sea to the Bay Baffin Island. read full article



One of the most complex scientific instruments ever built, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) arrived yesterday, accompanied by the same astronauts who will lead the International Space Station, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where it will be launched in 2011.
Will be presented in October in Turin, during the 5th ICG, the results of a joint US / EU aims to strengthen and improve the existing cooperation in developing the next generation of GPS and Galileo.
The 4th International Workshop on Systems and Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications, SECESA 2010, will take place October 13 to 15 in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the headquarters of the EPFL, the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne.
The 54th ESA parabolic flight campaign, which will take place next spring, provides, in addition to the usual simulation of weightlessness, including the parables of 25 seconds to simulate lunar gravity and that of the Martian surface. Full details for submission of proposals for scientific flight aboard an A300 Zero-G on 












